Dr. Whitaker is Director of the Whitaker Wellness Institute and Editor of Health and Healing newsletter that provides important health advice for more than 500,000 people nationwide. Dr. Whitaker graduated from Dartmouth College in 1966 and received his M.D. degree in 1970 from Emory University Medical School. He completed his surgical internship at Grady Memorial Hospital in 1971, and continued at the University of California in San Francisco in orthopedic surgery.

In 1974, Dr. Whitaker founded the California Orthomolecular Medical Society, along with four other physicians and the Nobel prize-winning scientist Dr. Linus Pauling. Dr. Whitaker is the author of several books including Reversing Diabetes, Reversing Heart Disease, Reversing Hypertension, Shed 10 Years in 10 Weeks, The Memory Solution, A Guide to Natural Healing, Is Heart Surgery Necessary?, and The Pain Relief Breakthrough.